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Oh yes, a fabulous bass player.
Let's give it up for the band.
It's Andre Mali on the trumpet.
Come on Dexter Payne on the saxophone.
Kim Stone on the bass.
Jay Forrest on the drum and vocals.
Names that Mr. Lionel Young has played with include Count Basie, Stevie Wonder, Jimmy
Page and Mr. Plant, Living Color, Linda Ronstadt, Homesick James.
Oh I was very impressed with that.
You got a list man, you got a list.
All right, we're in for some great music from this band.
Homesick James was the best of all that whole list.
I bet, I bet.
Some stories there.
He was a great musician.
All right I'm counting on you to give them some love and appreciation for their beautiful
set of music coming your way right now.
It is Bluestodo TV here on a Thursday night at 88 Keys and the Lionel Young Band.
Give it up ladies and gentlemen.
You got some applause coming your way.
Oh freedom, oh freedom.
I'll be buried in my grave.
And go home to my love.
And be free.
It's Friday night, yeah, and I just got paid.
I called up my baby, she said hey let's get away.
Got in the car, yeah, started it up.
I headed on over to pick her up.
Got to her house, man, she really looked great.
We headed on over to her favorite place.
On our way over, well it didn't take long.
During the trip we put the radio on.
Can't find no soul, no I'm me.
Nothing to listen to, oh is it just me?
She said I got to have something, it's got a good groove.
Got to have something that makes me want to move.
She said I got to have a rumba.
You know there's something about a rumba.
Oh there's something about a rumba.
Yeah there's something about a rumba.
Well there's something about a rumba.
Makes you want to move all night.
Yeah there's something about a rumba.
Yeah.
When I dined at the club, well everything was great.
Working the door was my old buddy Jake.
I said now hey hey Bob, can you hold me up?
Said give me just a minute, you might be a look.
Slipped the band to Jackson, asked for something slow.
She said save your money honey, but now you want to know that there's something about a rumba.
Yeah there's something about a rumba.
Oh there's something about a rumba.
Yeah there's something about a rumba.
There's something about a rumba.
Yeah there's something about a rumba.
Yeah.
The lady at our house we put the stereo on.
We held each other and we danced until dawn.
I said now baby it's time for me to go.
She shook her pretty head, she said I don't think so.
She whispered in my ear, wish that you would stay.
Now she led me to her room, I could hear her say that there was something about a rumba.
There's something about a rumba.
Oh there's something about a rumba.
There's something about a rumba.
All the powder on the mix you wanna move
Mix you wanna boo
Mix you wanna what not to
Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh!
B flat from the five
You can't blame me darling
For everything that's gone wrong
No!
You can't blame me darling
For everything that's gone wrong
Yeah, this is plain to see baby
Oh, we just can't get along
You know now pretty darling
Yeah, you treat me so bad
Oh!
Now, now pretty darling
You know I treat you so bad
Oh, we might have messed up baby
The best thing we ever had
Cause every day I said
Now crash, boom, bang
Drive on me and say
Oh!
Now crash, boom, bang
Love's gone down the drain
Well, I'm done with you
You're done with me
Yes, we're never gonna be the same
Tell them, Dix!
That's right!
Whoo!
Thece aka best
Loyal changed
Ooh so good
That's what I love
I said, now crash and boom, babe, love's got me insane.
I said, now crash and boom, babe, love's gone down the drain.
Well, I'm done with you, you're done with me.
Yeah, it's never gonna be the same.
Can't blame me, darling, for everything that's gone wrong.
No, can't blame me, darling, for everything that's gone wrong.
That's why now, pretty baby, Lord, we just can't get along.
I said, now crash and boom, babe, drive out me insane.
Yeah, crash and boom, babe, love's gone down the drain.
Well, you're done with me, I'm done with you, I'm done with me.
Yeah, let it plain to see, you're done with me.
Yeah, it's never gonna be the same.
Bye bye.
Yeah, thanks.
Well, I tried and I tried and I tried to do the thing that's right.
No matter how hard I try, all you wanna do is fight, hey, you was wrong.
You know you was wrong.
You was wrong.
You was wrong, little girl, you stayed away too long.
You stayed away too long.
Thank you.
Well, you oughta see my baby, you know that girl, she's so fine.
She loves me in the morning and every night, she's always on my mind.
She got sugar coated love.
Yeah, sugar coated love.
She's a real love baby, I don't mean maybe she's mine.
Well, I don't have to worry about money.
I don't have to worry about clothes.
I don't have to worry about anything, cause she's my baby.
And goodness knows she got sugar coated love.
Yeah, sugar coated love.
She's a real love baby, I don't mean maybe she's mine.
Well, you can take your pick of the other.
Take any one you choose.
Take all the rest, cause I don't need them.
Cause I got what I can use, and that's sugar coated love.
Yeah, sugar coated love.
She's a real love baby, I don't mean maybe she's mine.
She got sugar coated love.
So sweet.
I'm right off my feet.
?
Always accusing me of doing something wrong
Said you're playing with my mind, babe
Always accusing me of doing something wrong
I can see your lights on, baby
I can't see, I can't see nobody home
Now here come your mother-in-law
You know it's the same thing every day
Ever since we've been married, babe
You tried to drive me away
Now you're still accusing me, babe
Accusing me of doing something wrong
I can see your lights on, baby
I can't see, I can't see nobody home
Tell us about it, Steve
I can see your lights on, babe
Mr. Steve Thorpe, ladies and gentlemen, how about it?
I can see your lights on, babe
When I come home a little late
You know you accuse me of being out messing around
You know that's not true, baby
When I come home a little late, baby
You know you accuse me of being out messing around
I can see your lights on, baby
I can't see, I can't see
I can't see nobody home
Thank you very much.
Oh, look out, a Monday night, we're getting all hot and steamy up here.
Dean Riker Band, ladies and gentlemen, doing a great job, an excellent job with that set.
Woo, low to steam off, yes, it is a hot night.
Go on, get up to the next of that mic, I'm gonna interview you, man.
We got Scott Simmons on the bass.
Give it up for Scott, great bass player.
Dave Jeddy on the drums, one of my all-time favorites, all-time favorites.
Yeah, he signed my Cadillac, that's another story, but anyway.
Steve Thorpe on the keyboards, great job on the keyboards.
You like it loud, don't you?
What's that? Huh?
Why do you think I hired you?
Oh, it's smoking hot.
But now, let's talk about your gear first, because you got some good stuff going on here.
What's that amp? Let's start there.
That is a black-faced, silver face.
It's a 74.
The flames come out of that thing?
Is it loud?
It's one of the quieter amps I have, that's why I brought it tonight.
What about this, Telecaster?
Everything I do is fake.
Oh, he's pulling my leg, isn't he?
This is called a relic.
It's a relic, and it's...
It is.
What year? That always means something.
2006 or 2008, something like that.
You beat that thing up.
No, that's the way it came.
I take pristine care of it.
Okay, what about this one? That one's your favorite, I can tell.
That's another new one.
The story behind this, they reissued these, or actually this isn't a reissue, it's a tribute, 1960s gold top.
Ever since my mom took me into the first music store when I was probably, I don't know, eight years old, nine,
took me in to buy me a trumpet, there was a gold top sitting in the corner.
You wanted one ever since.
Ever since.
I finally got one because they're cheap.
There wasn't a grand for that.
Well, that opens up a door. What about your mom?
Is there a person in your life that opened up music for you like that? Was it mom?
Mm-hmm.
Tell me about that.
Mom and my aunts.
Yeah, your aunts.
Mm-hmm, two of them anyway.
Tell me more. Were they piano players, singers? What was going on?
Yeah, singers, piano players, not professionally.
Played the radio, DJ?
Yeah. You know, ever since I was young, young, probably two years old, I developed my own turntable in the kitchen with mom's mix master.
Wow, so you were serious at home about your music.
Yeah, you know, I was already a DJ at two, playing my own platters, which they literally were platters.
And about, I don't know, about four years old, the piano, my mom walked in the living room one day and she says, I was sitting at the piano playing.
She said, Dean, where did you learn that? And I said, off the TV.
I was listening to American Bandstand or something and I was playing part note for note.
I don't remember, but she's always said that.
So your mom had a lot to do with you getting into music. What about guitar? Was there a particular person that said, this is the instrument, and it opened your mind up?
I just, I didn't have a girlfriend. I wanted one.
No, I don't know.
My brother was a big musical influence on me and he bought me my first guitar, Sears Roebuck.
That was a harmony, yeah, the Sears Silver Tone Harmony, 1295 or something.
They're keepers, man. They're keepers.
He bought me that and that's what got me started.
Changed your life, huh?
Pretty much.
You big brother changed your life. Is it big brother?
Yes.
You also talked about a couple of record albums that changed your life. The Bloomfield Cooper LP.
The Double Live. That was a big one. I wore a couple of those out.
Did Bloomfield influence your guitar player?
I don't know. I was so into fusion and jazz at the time that I wasn't, well, I never listened to guitar players anyway to learn from.
Early on Led Zeppelin and all the typical stuff. Yeah, exactly.
Later on it was mostly drummers, piano players and trumpet players, which I quit playing trumpet, but that's what I listened to mostly.
So do you play more than guitar?
I'm sorry?
Do you play more than a guitar?
Drums and bass and just a tiny bit of keyboards.
You play everything, don't you?
We hate people like you, just kidding.
So you're a musical mongrel as you describe yourself.
Yeah. Many styles.
Many styles, many instruments. You do this full time? All you guys do full time, huh?
So what's with you, Dean?
I repair office chairs during the day.
I'm going to bust your chops on that, man. You should be playing this thing full time. I'm sorry, am I right?
Can I hear you say yeah?
Yeah!
Yeah, all right. I knew you were there.
Pure Food and Drug Act with Harvey Mandel and Don Sugarcane Harris. I remember that.
Another big one.
You remember that?
For me.
Okay, you're not old enough.
That was recorded right here in Seattle at the – do you know the name of the place?
K-Smith or something?
No, it was at a tavern off of 45th, right off 45th and I-5.
The Blue Moon? Had to be the Blue Moon. Or the Rainbow, the Fabulous Rainbow.
That might have been the Rainbow that was recorded.
The Fabulous Rainbow Tavern.
My soul's on fire. That was a big one for me.
It was the Fabulous. It had to be the Fabulous Rainbow.
Okay, so let's talk about – we talked about gear. What about your songs?
You have a couple of originals you started with, the Silver Spoon song.
That's personal, isn't it?
Could be.
I'm not going there.
Hanging on is useless. Most of it's – most of all, it's painful. That's a true statement.
Yeah.
That's what the blues is all about, huh?
That was written about two years ago in Vegas after some stuff happened.
You spent some time in Vegas.
That was my payback.
Oh, comebacks up.
Well, you know, I don't carry a grudge.
You don't carry what?
I don't carry a grudge.
Okay. 39 Days, that's another original?
No.
Oh, okay. Who wrote that one?
I don't remember.
Oh, I busted him.
Mike somebody. Okay, good.
I loved your arrangement of Crossroads. Tell me how you got to that.
Well, just through about four, five, six different arrangements of it.
We just – actually, at rehearsal, we came up with the drum group. Dave did.
And, you know –
Always starts with the drummer.
Just came together.
It doesn't with Dave.
Without me, it's just folk music.
Oh, give me that quote, man.
I'm just saying, without me, it's just folk music.
Oh, Dave Jeddy. Now, Dave, you're sitting here without your shoes on.
Do you always play naked? No.
Just from the ankle down.
And why? Was there someone who taught you that or something?
It's just – I grew up in Texas. It's hot.
And that's just one less piece of clothing you have to have on.
Oh, there's so many more questions I could dig into from that.
Wait. Are you going to the IBC finals? Is that what I heard?
We have advanced to the WBS finals. Yeah, in Snohomish.
So we're going up there. Yep.
So you made the first cut, as it were, for the International Blues Challenge.
Everybody trying to go to Memphis these days.
And you guys got a good chance with this band.
Oh, I hope so.
Big show coming up on August 19th in Snohomish.
James King and the Southsiders. Rafael is going to be there.
So how did you get into playing the bass?
I just grew up in a musical family, and that was the chair that needed to be filled.
So, yeah. But I kind of learned by watching.
I played in church, and there was a B3 in front of me.
And I'd taken piano lessons when I was six years old.
The man said, watch my feet.
So I'd watch his play keys with his feet, and I knew the notes.
So that's how I learned the notes on the bass.
The 1-4-5-4 came out, right? And the feet there.
I can relate to that. I grew up with a mom doing organ in a church.
And the same thing, I was down there at her feet.
Totally know that story firsthand.
So how old were you then?
Oh, I was probably in early teens.
And then I played drums in high school, went to college, and then here I am.
Well now, when did you get into this professionally,
and when did you know you had to do it professionally?
I'm an electrician by trade, so that's always treated me.
I've always had that.
But I played from 20 years old on. I was pretty busy.
And then when I moved up in this area, I've been very busy the last 15 years or so.
In this area, yeah.
You also sing, Steve, as well as play the keyboards.
And you have two Nords over there.
Two Nords. I've seen a Nord before, but never have I seen someone with two Nords.
This is the brand of keyboard I'm talking about.
These are great. They sound like a Hammond organ.
Tell me about your gear there.
Yeah, they really do an outstanding job.
They're a Swedish company.
The bottom keyboard just does Hammond B3.
And in other organs, it does Farpisa, the cheesy Italian organs from the 60s.
And it also does a really good pipe organ.
But mainly B3 is what people use them for.
And the top keyboard does B3 as well, but you have weighted keys for the piano.
And you can't play the B3 on the piano because you have to do all these smears and these run-ups.
And it's just a whole other action.
So that's why I drive around so much gear, to be more authentic.
You do this full-time. What got you into the keyboards?
It's funny listening to Dean's story.
I've never really talked to him about that, but it's really similar.
My mom played, just played by ear.
We always had a piano in the house, five or six.
I just picked it up, had a good ear for it.
Never really took lessons.
I just kind of always learned off records.
And back in the old days, you could check out big records from the library.
And I would check those out and learn classical songs or whatever I could find.
Way to go. Well, you got the chops.
Never a lesson. I'm so sorry.
That's right. And we both grew up in Vancouver, Washington.
Both of you, too?
Never met until up here.
And you didn't know that about, oh, what a 10-minute interview will do.
That's right.
Steve Thorpe on the keyboards.
I could ask you some more questions, but we're running out of time here.
Dave Jeddy on the drums.
I love you, man.
Scott Simmons on the bass.
You can find Dave and Steve in the Jonathan Harris band.
No, I'm sorry, Dave and Scott in the Jonathan Harris country band.
But this is the Dean Reichert band.
Dean Reichert on guitar.
It's called There's a Better Life.
What is a man supposed to do when she just won't play by rules?
Longer than night, laying on the lawn.
Keep your pain warm, holding on.
Says I'm a business, I think.
It's a lack of communication.
I'm begging in my business.
There's a better life for me.
When is a game just played to lose?
Holding on for too long.
What was this thing you were trying to prove?
What you did was just wrong.
Holding on is useless.
It's painful.
Most of all, it's painful.
Holding on is useless.
I know there's a better life.
There was a time when I knew you.
I remember a day.
There was a dream that went away.
I remember a day.
There was a dream that went away.
What is a man supposed to do when you just won't play by the rules?
Night after night sitting home alone.
Keep your pain warm, holding up on.
Says I'm a business, I think.
It's a lack of communication.
I'm begging in my business.
I know, yes I know.
Holding on is useless.
It's painful.
Most of all, it's painful.
Telling us ain't for.
I know, yes I know.
Steve Thorpe won the keyboards.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.